In The Cat Cave: February 2017

Friday 24 February 2017

Thank You Bibi | #tgifc96

This week on the TGIF Challenge Blog is a designer inspiration challenge. Bibi is a beautiful artist that makes her projects come alive. She often uses floral images and techniques. I created this card that showcased her style but remained within my own style.

To create this card, I heat embossed the stamped images onto watercolour paper. I used an aqua painter with Stampin' Write markers in order to colour these images. The colours used were old olive, crushed curry and watermelon wonder. You can also see that smoky slate was used to lift the sentiment off the page.

With that said, I want to send a huge thank you to Bibi as she has now left our TGIF and Stampin' Up! families to pursue other opportunities. Thanks for the inspiration Bibi - we will continue to watch you grow.

Make sure to play along with this challenge this week!

Cathy

Thursday 23 February 2017

a pop of pink | Fancy Friday Blog Hop

This month's Fancy Friday Blog Hop is all about pink. Now when I think about pink, I think about Erica from Pink Buckaroo Designs. She's always rocking bright colours. I am quite the opposite - I rarely use pink in my designs so this challenge could have been a tough challenge.

Almost as tough as finding a hot pink shirt that I have been searching high and low all over the country for. It seems this design will remain in my head until I make it myself.

I started out by grabbing some of pink cardstock but I was quick to notice the Pop of Pink Speciality Design Series Paper.

As many of you know I water colour and die cut in bulk. This card is a great example of how a project came together quickly because I was able to layer pieces together quickly.

#adttipsandtricks: I watercolour using Stampin' Write markers and an aqua painter. But I always make sure to ground the images by creating a halo resembling the floor or a shadow.

Next up is Krista Frattin. She's a favourite Stampin' Up! designer of mine so I have no doubt you'll be in love with whatever pink-a-licious project she makes.

Friday 17 February 2017

a chick with a bow tie | #tgifc95

Well, well, well.

This week's TGIF challenge is an inspiration challenge and I can't imagine any other design team member thinking about anything other than these cutie chicks!

I can't stop looking at how cute he is!!

Seriously though.. that bow tie.

I guess you are going to have to go play with your Hey, Chick stamp set now, aren't you?

You have a week to knock this challenge out of the park!

Until next time!

Cathy

Thursday 16 February 2017

hello silver embossing powder | Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team Blog Hop

You are here for the pictures, aren't you?

Fair enough.

All you need to know is silver embossing powder + watercolored air balloons = love

and

layer with ribbon.

To see more of my projects using the Lift Me Up Bundle, check out my post on Creative Scrapbooker Magazine this month.

Andd.... I have 60 centimeters of snow to shovel so let's get hopping.

The fabulous Dani is up next!

Supplies are all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted: watercolour paper, Lift me Up Bundle, metallic SAB ribbon, doilies, silver embossing powder, melon mambo, crushed current and tempting turquoise Stampin' Write markers, Stitched Shapes Dies, SAB Carry Me Away designer series paper, silver foil.

Friday 3 February 2017

a tasty ice cream truck | #tgifc93

Yesterday I was playing around with the Tasty Trucks Sale-a-Bration stamp set for my Artisan Stampin' Up! post (click to see more). I decided to use this stamp for the TGIF Blog colour challenge this week as well because its reminded me of the old ice cream truck colours.

From now until the end of March, you can get this free exclusive stamp set when you spend $60 Cdn ($50 USD) on Stampin' Up! products.... You can't buy this set outright... so be sure to contact me to place an order and get it asap!

In the mean time, have a wonderful day and play along with this colour challenge this week!

Cathy

Thursday 2 February 2017

That's One Tasty Truck! | Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team SAB Blog Hop

In today's blog hop, the Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team are showcasing all the amazing products that you can get during the Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration promotion. The deal is that when you spend $60 Cdn ($50 USD) you get to choose one of many products from an exclusive mini catalog.

Tasty Trucks is one of the products that you can choose as your free product. You can also choose the metallic ribbon or the Carried Away Designer Paper that are also shown on my card.

Like most days when I am tasked with using a specific product, I sit down and play.

Play, I did with my aqua painters and Stampin' Write markers.

Of course... I would often finish my card here as clean and simple turns my crank..

But it was nice to finish the card with some embellishments and more colour.

With my additional pieces, I created this card on crumb cake. The images were water coloured and then adhered to the card base with dimensionals.

I created one more card as part of the TGIF Design Team colour challenge this week. Make sure to check out that post so you can playing along with our challenge!

And before I forget... you saw that I like to play. Often I stamp way too many images so I save those stamped images and place them inside clear plastic envelopes inside the stamp sets. I do the same thing with die cuts. I cut a ton and then put them in clear plastic envelopes and place them inside the storage envelopes.